def changeEDEXHost(newHostName):
"""
Changes the EDEX host the Data Access Framework is communicating with. Only
works if using the native Python client implementation, otherwise, this
method will throw a TypeError.
:param newHostHame: the EDEX host to connect to
"""
if USING_NATIVE_THRIFT:
global THRIFT_HOST
THRIFT_HOST = newHostName
global router
router = ThriftClientRouter.ThriftClientRouter(THRIFT_HOST)
else:
raise TypeError("Cannot call changeEDEXHost when using JepRouter.")
import sys
import subprocess
THRIFT_HOST = "edex"
USING_NATIVE_THRIFT = False
if sys.modules.has_key('jep'):
# intentionally do not catch if this fails to import, we want it to
# be obvious that something is configured wrong when running from within
# Java instead of allowing false confidence and fallback behavior
import JepRouter
router = JepRouter
else:
from awips.dataaccess import ThriftClientRouter
router = ThriftClientRouter.ThriftClientRouter(THRIFT_HOST)
USING_NATIVE_THRIFT = True
def getAvailableTimes(request, refTimeOnly=False):
"""
Get the times of available data to the request.
Args:
request: the IDataRequest to get data for
refTimeOnly: optional, use True if only unique refTimes should be
returned (without a forecastHr)
Returns:
a list of DataTimes
"""